Microsoft

The enterprise end-game is in full swing. The main players including IBM, Cisco, EMC, Microsoft and HP to name a few are jostling for a piece of the datacentre and.the Cloud. They figure that the game is to be one of a handful of super-utilities serving mips and megabytes to the world's largest corporations. However […]

Evangelical religions have known this for thousands of years. Google has known it for some time. And Ryanair certainly understands the notion. Let’s look at religion. Essentially a handful of members subsidise the benefits enjoyed by the majority of members. The people who attend church and make a contribution to the collection plate are in […]

My new book the ‘e-Skills Manifesto: A call to Arms’ is to be launched next Wednesday at the European Business Summit in Brussels. If you are interested in the future of Europe then you will find it a compelling read. I’ll be having a panel discussion with Jan Muehlfeit, European Chairman, Microsoft and Dr Bruno […]

Spoke at the Microsoft Tech Days event in Sweden recently. It was geek heaven; deep technology sessions with a heaving exhibition centre that by day was a very high tech amusement arcade and by night a very high tech North African night club. So I had some reservations about my presentation entitled ‘Does the IT […]

I think there needs to be clarity on what an IT job is. Traditionally we think technologist, increasingly we think power user. No doubt there will be a shift as jobs go off shore. More significantly the high total cost of ownership of the data centre will drive technology innovation to obviate the need for […]

In a recent post I mentioned that I attended the launch of IDC's white paper on 'Skilling Europe for Innovation, Sustainable Growth and Employment in the 21st Century'. The paper has strong and relevant messages for anyone involved in the recruitment, development and consumption of ICT talent. The sponsors, Microsoft, have captured the essence of […]